Medium Effects in Cooling of Neutron Stars and $3P_2$ Neutron Gap

Abstract

We study the dependence of the cooling of isolated neutron stars on the magnitude of the $3P_2$ neutron gap. It is demonstrated that our ``nuclear medium cooling'' scenario is in favor of a suppressed value of the $3P_2$ neutron gap.

Comments: 18 p., 12 figs., extended version of astro-ph/0501678, accepted in A&A